Serving Northampton · NN1, NN2, NN3

Websites for Northampton businesses

County town of the cobblers — Crockett & Jones, Loake and Church's still cutting leather in NN1, with a new cordwainers' gallery.

Northampton sits where the River Nene bends south of the M1, with the old Market Square still the centre of the grid. The town was once a quarter of England's boot and shoe output, and the nickname stuck — the football club's still the Cobblers. Abington Park and its 15th-century museum sit a mile up the Wellingborough Road, and the 1189 town charter and the 1264 and 1460 battles are still taught in primary schools. Most of the action sits between the Market Square and Abington Street, where the old M&S and BHS site is being rebuilt as Albert's Yard, and the new Greyfriars deal has just been signed. Crockett & Jones and a dozen other cordwainer workshops are still cutting leather.

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The shoemaking industry is still the headline — Crockett & Jones on the Eastfield estate (founded 1879, still Goodyear-welted), John White Shoes, Loake, Church's, Trickers, Barker and Grenson all still have Northampton factories or finishing rooms. Alongside that sits a long tail of trades — electricians and builders out on the Brackmills and Moulton Park estates, the usual cluster of cafés and salons on Abington Street, and the Park Café in Abington Park. The Market Square still hosts regular street markets under the 1235 Henry III charter. Northampton BID represents the town-centre levy payers and runs the discovernorthampton.co.uk business directory. West Northamptonshire Council signed the Greyfriars development deal with Muse and ECF in late 2025 — a multi-year regeneration that will bring new homes, an amphitheatre and a chunk of retail. Albert's Yard, on the old M&S and BHS site, is being built out at the same time.

Every Northampton site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Northampton small businesses, not stock photos

Every Northampton brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Northampton businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

Some Northampton independents we'd happily sit next to

Crockett & Jones
Goodyear-welted shoemaker
Founded 1879 in Northampton; still cutting and clicking leather on the Eastfield Industrial Estate, one of the town's flagship cordwainers.
The Park Café (Abington Park)
Independent café in Abington Park
Long-running café by the aviaries and lake in Abington Park, next to the Abington Park Museum.
Nuovo Restaurant
Italian cicchetti, cocktail and wine bar
Independent restaurant and bar at the top of Abington Street, a couple of minutes' walk from St Michael's car park.
Matchbox Café
Independent town-centre café
Indie café inside Wellington House on Abington Street, a long-running town centre favourite for breakfast and lunch.

Streets we know in Northampton

Abington Street
Market Square
Gold Street
The Drapery
Sheep Street
Bridge Street
Wellingborough Road
Mare Fair

Neighbourhoods covered

Abington
Kingsthorpe
Duston
Dallington
Far Cotton
Semilong
Delapré
Weston Favell
East Hunsbury
West Hunsbury

Trade bodies & BIDs in Northampton

Northampton BID

Why these industries cluster here

Footwear and cordwainers
Northampton was producing roughly a quarter of England's boots and shoes by the mid-19th century; Crockett & Jones, Church's, Loake, Trickers, Barker, Grenson and John White Shoes all still finish Goodyear-welted shoes in or around NN1–NN5, and the new dedicated footwear gallery at Northampton Museum is built around the trade.
Logistics and light industry
Brackmills Industrial Estate and the Moulton Park industrial corridor host a long tail of logistics, distribution and light-industrial occupiers, with their own BID sitting alongside the town-centre BID.
Independent retail and street markets
The Market Square's street markets still trade under the 1235 Henry III charter that moved trading out of All Saints' churchyard and onto the square.

West Northamptonshire Council signed a development management agreement with Muse and ECF for the Greyfriars area of Northampton in late 2025, with new homes, an amphitheatre and shops (https://voxvine.com/news/muse-jv-signs-northampton-regeneration-agreement/), and the BBC reported in July 2025 that the Four Waterside project had been delayed by power capacity issues (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j4v9ll75qo).

Where we work

Websites for Northampton and Northamptonshire

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Northampton and every other town in Northamptonshire.

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Northampton build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Northampton link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

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FAQs

Northampton web design — common questions

Do you build sites for tradesmen and cafés across the NN1–NN5 postcodes?

Yes — anywhere in the NN postcode area. I cover trades, salons, independent shops and the cordwainer workshops still operating in and around Northampton. The £25/month plan and 1–2 week turnaround are the same whether you're on Abington Street, out on the Brackmills estate, or in Kingsthorpe or Duston.

Will my Northampton business rank higher on Google if I use you?

No. I don't sell SEO, link building, content marketing or Google Ads, and I don't promise first-page rankings. I do build fast, hand-coded sites with sensible titles, descriptions and clean mobile loads — the kind of page that loads quickly, looks right on a phone, and is easy to share on a van or an Instagram bio.

Can you set up or run our Google Business Profile too?

No — and that's deliberate. I don't take on Google Business Profile work, social media management, or paid ads. I just build the website, keep it hosted, and do small content edits the same day when you need them. The £25/month plan is just the site.

How long does it take to get a website live in Northampton?

Usually 1–2 weeks from an agreed brief to a live link. There's no setup fee, no contract, and the £25/month covers hosting, SSL, backups and software updates. Small content edits — a new phone number, a swapped photo, a price change — go back the same day in most cases.

Do you do SEO, blogs, or Google Business Profile?

No — and that's deliberate. The £25/month plan is for a clean, quick website on its own domain, with the basic on-page SEO sorted (sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads). It is not a marketing package. If you want someone to actively manage your Google Business Profile, run a blog, or chase rankings, this isn't the right service — I'd rather say so upfront.

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